If you were in any doubt about what we’re up against when it comes to developing Scottish football, former St Mirren chairman, Stewart Gilmour’s incoherent rant in one of today’s newspapers, that Peter Lawwell is running Scottish football, paints a clear picture for you.
Peter Lawwell’s club, your club, PAYS for Scottish football. Fans of this club pour millions into the bank accounts of others from Dingwall to Kilmarnock. Those same clubs earn TV money and trackside advertising to viewers who tune in to see that very same club play football.
Each SPFL and SFA member club has only one vote, and Peter Lawwell is out-voted and frustrated on many issues. What he brings to the table is experience of the game, business, commercial contracts, risk and strategy that no one else in our game has ever enjoyed.
He will be the person who brings evidence-based insight into the value of our game’s commercial properties. This is not because Peter Lawwell is some unassailable guru, he simply has experience of running a business which is greater in depth and scope than anyone else in the history of Scottish football. The fair-minded acknowledge this and are thankful for it.
If your skillset is more suited to a bowling club committee than a business turning over tens of millions of pounds, and you have an unfortunate attitude towards Celtic representatives, all this might rub you up the wrong way.
You may think the last person you want illuminating Scottish football is some educated ******. Believe me, these attitudes persist in our game.
Gilmour, you will remember, was in charge of St Mirren when Charles Green (then the darling of Ibrox), was invited to New St Mirren Park for a Celtic game. They all wanted a piece of Peter then, but there was no courtesy offered from the Celtic contingent on the day.
This is a call to arms by those who want to encourage clubs to obstruct Celtic in every way possible. Peter Lawwell is their bogeyman. They are still sore that they didn’t turnover Celtic (and the rest of Scottish football) in 2012, and they blame Peter for not getting what they wanted.
Now there is a fresh reality to worry about: Celtic making their own way in the world, with the consent of Scottish football. Others will find their place in the game, while one club would wither on the vine without Celtic to feed off.
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Moonbeamswd ….Hahahahahahaha …. my wife keeps all the millions for herself
SHUGGIEBHOY67 on 20TH JANUARY 2017 8:01 AM
Dr.Unk I think Mt:5:34-37 is what your looking for in the `Ole Cherrypickers Handbook,but typically the polar opposite can also be found,its called contradiction,which sort of renders Islay Peat `s assertion of “sound Christian theology”a bit of an oxymoron
No wonder the Roman Empire chose Christianity to keep their subjects in line.
HH
P.S. i think Trumpet is required to swear an oath some time today,Trustworthy?
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Do you have a problem with all religious faiths, or is it only Christianity that you are contemptuous of?
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George Schwartz is making threats at that gathering in Switzerland of the so-called globalist “elites”.
The worst of the worst.
If that mob are for something, then I am automatically against whatever or whomever they promote.
Pure evil they are.
Apparently there is going to be a price to pay for Brexit and Trump being elected – and everyone is going to suffer,regardless.
Hopefully Merkel and Hollande will be the next crooked puppets for the high jump – that would really throw a spanner in the works.
The comments section of the Guardian could make for some entertaining reading.
Slan.
KTF.
16 roads – Celtic über alles
gooooooood morning sir
Oot n aboot in Siracusa yesterday .
Bus load of elderly female Americans doing a guided tour of the Baroque delights of Ortigia. ,All wearing T Shirts with Trumpet’s psycho toddler visage and the legend – Leave My Pussy Alone You Creep..All made even better by a group of secondary school pupils from Enna clocking the T shirts and chanting – Trump Trump Vaffanculo !!!!!.
Sunny / cold – – it has finally stopped raining -way down south.
Good morning Lefty.
I’m finished with politics chief – last ever post on the subject.
That’s a promise.
Apologies to all.
HH mo chara.
Laters.
Will this be the term of the Designated Survivor?
MWD
Oi! I’m not too clued up on the ole rhyming slang. I know what a Barry White is, but…but…but…
What’s a Barrie McKay?
DAVIDOPOULOS on 20TH JANUARY 2017 10:22 AM
A £6m + wonderkid?
One from the Minty Park Conveyor Belt….
glendalystonsils
A slang money term? So the order is:
A Rangers = £1
A Score = £20
A Pony = £25
A Ton = £100
A Monkey = £500
…
A Barrie McKay = £6m
A Dembele = £30m
A Super Casino = £120m
An Insolvency Event = £134m
A Dave King- an Overinvestment
16 Roads @ 10am,
Fair play.
For the avoidance of doubt, I plan to waste as much time, thinking about politics and politicians as they plan to spend thinking about me. SFA.
I hope you’re well.
Till later.
BR has pinched Mark Hateley’s patter and has said that having Kieran Tierney back is like a new signing…
SHUGGIEBHOY67 on 20TH JANUARY 2017 8:01 AM
Dr.Unk I think Mt:5:34-37 is what your looking for in the `Ole Cherrypickers Handbook,but typically the polar opposite can also be found,its called contradiction,which sort of renders Islay Peat `s assertion of “sound Christian theology”a bit of an oxymoron
No wonder the Roman Empire chose Christianity to keep their subjects in line.
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If you know any history, which I doubt, you will know that the Romans murdered and actually tortured and maimed Christians for hundreds of years before succumbing to the light of Christ.
The so called cherry-pickers handbook which you by disdain the Bible is only so to those who are ignorant indeed of how language and oral history works.
Try having a conversation without metaphors, idioms, similes, analogies, allegories. It’s pretty difficult and to do so would sterilise the beautiful richness of languages.
So why would the written word be any different?
You come across to me as one of those immature pop atheists who couldn’t hold his water in a serious debate about Faith if your life (or perhaps soul would be more apt) depended on it.
This is what happens to atheist giants like Dawkins when skillfully questioned by intelligent people who do not subscribe to atheism https://youtu.be/Pckg3Kud8_A
DAVIDOPOULOS on 20TH JANUARY 2017 10:35 AM
You could add to your list;
A crafty tax wheeze £250m
The article;
DAILY RECORD’S PAEDO SLUR
is that an unofficial ‘official’ invite to boycott?
Not that I need any invite.
Just been told by my son that we have hospitality passes for the Albion Rovers v Celtic game on Sunday.
Delighted. Can’t wait.
Brenda? This won’t go down to well in here with a few, trust me, a can see they’r faces now, bellin, GIRFUYs
THE fall-out from Wednesday’s Radio Scotland interview with Stewart Gilmour continues with Celtic manager Brendan Rodgers having his say and the journalist who wrote a back page story on Gilmour’s remarks being plunged into a job threatening personal crisis after shaming himself on social media.
Brendan Rodgers praised Celtic chief executive Peter Lawwell and insists all of Scottish football is benefiting from his leadership qualities.
The Hoops boss was responding to comments attributed to former St Mirren chairman Stewart Gilmour on a BBC radio programme.
The ex-Paisley supremo said Lawwell was responsible for the running of the game in Scotland and hinted he did not always act with the greater good of the game in mind.
However, Rodgers immediately backed the Parkhead chief and said: “He should be glad, eh? My experience of Peter is he’s a wonderful ambassador, not just for Celtic, but for Scottish football. I believe if Celtic do well everyone else does well.
“Celtic are a club that are not just representing ourselves but Scotland. And Peter, for me, in terms of the operation of Celtic, over how many years he’s ran it very well. That’s why the club is in such a stable position, such a good position.
“That leadership has given him a profile in Europe with other top presidents and directors. That’s through his behaviour and the quality of leadership in his work.
“I think he does a great job and he represents Scotland very well.”
Meanwhile the journalist who wrote the back page story in the Daily Record on Gilmour’s views on Peter Lawwell running the game in Scotland, has today been exposed on social media as a narrow minded, bigot, making a default hunnish remark on Twitter.
Alan Clark, the Daily Record journalist wrote “You’ve got paedo on your mind. You must’ve been dealing with a lot of time recently. I forgive you.”
On his ‘exclusive’ in the paper (he listened to Radio Scotland) he stated on Twitter that he was ‘Delighted to get my first back page splash in today’s Record.”
Clark has now protected his tweets but that may be seen as too little too late by his bosses who must recognise that slurs of this nature will see even more Celtic supporters walking away from their paper.
Unbelievably Celtic still partner with Trinity Mirror, the owners of the Daily Record, in publishing the Celtic View.
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Big Jimmy is having internet issues at the moment and doesn’t get onto the blog as much as he would like to. He sends his beat wishes to all and will get back to regaling us with his wit and wisdom as soon as he can.
Great to have a Celtic match to watch this weekend.
Artificial turf for Ajer……Be careful!
Beat = best, obviously.
ALMORE
I miss BIG JIMMY’s craic. He needed his own personal moderator at times!
TONY DONNELLY 67 @11.14am
You have a typo in reproducing Clark’s slur. Should read”Tims” and not “time” in reference to paedos. Why anyone buys or reads this rag is beyond my comprehension. HH
That’s it!! Leapzig are buyin wee Barrie for £6m. Keith says so. That’s ra gers sorted! Look out Celts, the Rangers are comin. If Celtic can buy Moussa for 500k rangers can now buy 12 of his type. The chase is on…..
AN TEACH SOLAIS
The misprint is in the article itself. The tweet had the insult in all its glory though.
I wouldn’t know where to start correcting that type of mentality,btw.
An Teach Solais,
Why we have a deal with the Trinity Mirror Group re the Celtic View (apparently) is beyond my comprehension.
I wonder if that is the reason there is a problem getting the CQN photographer inside Celtic Park?
Auld Tam,
Great news about the Albion tickets. Enjoy.
Offski
BILLYBEAR
Or you could buy another three-and-a-third Joe Garners.
Voila,yer ten goals-a-season striker!
BMCUPW
Thanks for the correction.. I had only seen the tweet and not the article.
TD67 My apologies.
CLOGHERCELT Perhaps Celtic View should be reconsidering its ties with Trinity Mirror . It does seem bizarre to have a trading relationship with a company, one of whose organs has a track record (!!) Of lying and distortion. HH
AULD TAM on 20TH JANUARY 2017 11:09 AM
You managed to find a source for your story about the cabin crew on the flight from Vigo yet?
Morning Celts
Easy solution to all this, ban the huns and their mouthpiece meeja from Celtic Park…Forever.
Job Done.
HH
Wee piece on Italian radio re Pastor Robert Jeffress ( a new name for me ) — man who is delivering the sermon at a private pre inauguration service for Trump and some of his fellow Trumpets . The brief description seemed to be too wacko to be true . -but -I checked him out — MAMA MIA !!!!!.
Time for a walk on a beach with the dogs .
THEGREENMAN
I think we should ban the BBC so that they get their own back by showing as many of our games as possible.
That strategy kept the huns afloat.
BMCUWP
Ban all negative reporters from Celtic Park
#why the feck should we have to put up with this S***
The BBC, Radio Scoddland, The Hun, The Daily Hun, The Scotshun, The Hun Herald, The Hun times.
We owe them feck all.
You wouldnt put up with this s*** off anybody in the street, so why the feck do they get away with their nasty nasty lies….and the PLC just take it.
It needs to stop.
HH
As for that hun halfwit that put that slur tweet out
He will be very careful what he says now….and of course the fecking coward wouldnt dream of saying things like that to your face, typical hun moron.
He be better to hide….fecking coward.
HH
new article posted.
SOUTH OF TUNIS
I’m sure deep down he really is a warm and fuzzy hate filled psychopath…
By his friends you’ll shall know him..
Currently enjoying The Rough Guide to Ethiopian Jazz a Chrimbo present from a mate back home!
HH
BMCUW, I’m going to work in Yeovil on Monday for 2 months, allegedly, so maybe we can meet up for a wee swally some weekend?
AN TEACH SOLAIS on 20TH JANUARY 2017 11:28 AM
TONY DONNELLY 67 @11.14am
You have a typo in reproducing Clark’s slur. Should read”Tims” and not “time” in reference to paedos. Why anyone buys or reads this rag is beyond my comprehension. HH
Sorry mate that was cut and pasted from the DR not my typo, the Brenda was my typo yes, DR do these typos a lot.